Many of us use tea bags as a convenient way to make either hot or iced tea. However this item that we take for granted was discovered by accident. It is said that an individual who imported the product to the United States placed various samples of leaves into a sachet. This was a convenient way to carry them and show them to interested customers. However a few unknowing customers placed the entire bag with the leaves into the pot thinking that was the correct way to use it. Eventually this idea became quite a hit with tea drinkers.